Configure Device Category Icons

NNMi enables you to customize the icons associated with a Device Profile or specific Nodes.These icons appear in views, menu items, and as foreground images on an NNMi topology map.

You can specify icons for a specific Node, Device Family, Device Vendor, or Device Category. NNMi determines the icon to use in the following order of precedence:

To use the command line to load the icon images to the NNMi database so they are available for use, see nnmicons.ovpl. To use the NNMi console to load images, see Add Device Profile Icons

To configure a Device Category icon:

  1. Navigate to the Device Category attribute.

  2. Click the Lookup icon, and select  Open.
  3. Navigate to the Icon attribute.
  4. Do one of the following:

    1. Select the Name of the icon you want to use.
    2. Click the  Lookup icon, and select  New. See Add Device Profile Icons for more information.
  5. Select the Name of the icon you want to use.
  6. Click  Save and Close to save and apply your changes.
  7. Verify that the icon specified displays in the appropriate places.

    Note NNMi provides a missing icon () to indicate a Device Profile icon is not available. The reasons that NNMi displays the missing icon include the following: 

    • The icon's graphic file has been deleted.
    • The icon's graphic file does not exist.